40 Under 40 Award: Lauren Lewis
Buffalo Business First - the 40 Under 40 awards of 2020!
Since 1992, Buffalo Business First has honored 1,120 winners of the 40 Under 40 awards. This year we add another 40 to the 28th annual roster of people doing impressive things in the workplace and community.
Lauren Lewis is partner and co-founder at StaffBuffalo.
After a decade-long career in pharmaceutical sales, during which she said she made connections with some of the businesses and people that make the city great, Lewis had a desire to do more.
So she and her cousin, Maggie Shea, founded StaffBuffalo, which has been focusing on professional temporary and permanent employment needs since 2015.
Here Lewis combines her background in sales, her love of working with people, and her passion for Western New York.
Lewis hosts a weekly radio show and is involved with Child and Family Services and Nardin Academy.
She also is president of Buffalo Niagara Human Resources Association.
Partner, StaffBuffalo
Age: 36
Lives in: Buffalo
Born in: Buffalo
Graduate of: Nardin Academy
College: B.A., communications and media studies, Fordham University; MBA, finance, Canisius College
Community involvement: Buffalo Niagara Human Resources Association president; Nardin Academy Alumni chairperson; Child & Family Services Ambassador Committee; Buffalo Prep - Prep Collective; Fifty Fabulous Women Giving Circle - Executive Committee/Communications chair; WNY at Work co-host
When did you decide your career path: After college
Dream mentor: Kendra Scott
Bucket list: Traveling to the Maldives
Best professional advice ever received: Be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Favorite WNY spot: My family's summer house in Crystal Beach
